The reports that all of the world’s 30 GB Zune MP3 players have at once suddenly frozen up seem to be true. Internet message boards, including the one on the Zune website, are filled with panicky users wondering how to fix their Microsoft device once it seizes on the boot screen. So far, nothing is working. Rumors are flying. Is it a strange Y2K9 thing? Unlikely, given that the mass freezes occurred before the new year. Perhaps Apple has spread a virus to kill all of the Zunes? Also unlikely, given that the Zune doesn’t pose a serious threat to the iPod’s dominance. As difficult as it is to face, there’s just one terrifying explanation that we’ll all have to bring ourselves to face: Aliens have frozen our planet’s Zunes and will use them to blackmail Bill Gates into apologizing for Windows Vista.
UPDATE: Reports are now coming in that the aliens have also taken control of the 80 GB models.
Any Zuners out there heading into New Year’s Eve without their digital tunes? Anyone figure out a solution yet? Is there a better explanation than the alien one?
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I feel really sorry for all the people with this problem, but in my case, my Zune 30 was stolen from me about six months ago, and I cannot avoid the feeling of poetic justice in this glitch.
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow’s are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max goes to the drive-in to get ribs and when the ribs are served they are so big the car tips over.
DUDE stay tuned here http://forums.zune.net/0/29/405585/ShowPost.aspx
p.s. supposedly the clocks have gone bad or something nobody is sure at all my zune is raped :’(
aliens have seized, not “ceased”
Yep. I am a victim of Y2k
ceased – to cause to come to an end
seized – to attack or overcome, to fail to operate
Learn the difference
My Zune just went on the blink this morning. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!
I’m one of the unlucky ones with the 30 and it happened just like everyone else’s – this puppy wasn’t free or cheap, and neither is my membership I pay to rent my songs…
maybe a zune is a POS and thats reason enough
I am also an unfortunate victim. This is a tragedy. I know a DJ who uses two Zunes for work and has a gig tonight… That is really going to suck.
WHY!!!! HOW!!!! Im musicless!!
microsoft is really pissing people off. including myself. watch as they crumble. way to start the new year MS
What’s a Zune
Yeah, mine is doing the same thing too. Which sucks because I love my Zune and have had it forever and it’s never done anything like this before. So now I have the Zune Screen of Death.
poop. the world is coming to an end.